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A selection from the most remarkable and interesting of the fishes found on the coast of Ceylon : from drawings made in the southern part of that island, from the living specimens (1834)

Author: Bennett, John Whitchurch; Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887, former owner. DSI
Subject: Fishes; Fishes
Publisher: London : Edward Bull
Language: English
Call number: 39088015067325
Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: biodiversity
Notes: some picture captions lost in gutter

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Originally published: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830

"W. Wilson, printer ... London"--Verso of half title

At head of title: Dedicated, by special permission, to His Most Gracious Majesty George IV. King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, &c. &c. &c

Each plate accompanied by a leaf of descriptive letterpress

Plates are hand-colored

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SCNHRB copy (39088015067325) stamped on t.p.: Division of Fishes; Spencer F. Baird [and] Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution Mar 3 1882 [ms. acc. no.] 124800

SCNHRB copy has further pencilled identifications on descriptive letterpress leaves

SCNHRB copy stamped in red at end: 1 Aug., 1858

SCNHRB copy bound in blue library buckram, title in gilt on spine

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